Professor Jonathan Bolton (Harvard University) gave the 2020 Taylor lecture on 18 February.
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This day is for Year 12 students from UK schools who have Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic (BAME) heritage.
This is the first time the complete work has been translated into English.
Professor Leeder reads some of her new translation of Durs Grünbein’s powerful evocation of one of the great symbolic tragedies of twentieth-century warfare: Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City, Seagull Books (2020).
We are looking to do a ‘Your Stories’ feature on our wonderful and varied alumni, in May 2020.
The conference “Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: Perspectives and Practices in Cultural Analysis”, is taking place in Oxford on 31 January - 1 February 2020.
Patrick McGuinness spoke at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week to close their exhibition of the Swiss-French painter Félix Vallotton.
Congratulations to Professor Ève Morisi, who was recently awarded a Robert Silvers Grant for her book project, French and Francophone Fictions of Terrorism (1789-2019).
Catriona Seth was a guest on France's prime time literary television programme, La Grande Librairie
Professor Ève Morisi was part of France's national radio show "La marche de l'histoire" on 6 January 2020.
The Oxford Spires Academy’s project “A Writer’s War” was designed to examine how writers from the UK, France, and Germany responded to the First World War in poetry and prose.
The 2019 Zaharoff lecture recording is now available to view online.
Professor Andrew Kahn is given an honorary mention for his book A History of Russian Literature, for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize.
The Michaelmas 2019 issue is now available for reading.
Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Thick of it (Seagull Books, 2018), has been shortlisted for the prestigious Schlegel-Tieck translation prize of the Society of Authors for 2019.
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, edited and translated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine has just been nominated as one of the TLS’s ‘Books of 2019’
Catriona Seth was recently invited to discuss her new edition of Marie-Antoinette's letters to the Austrian ambassador on RFI's De Vive(s) Voix.
We are pleased to announce funding opportunities available to applicants for graduate programmes in the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, for Michaelmas 2020 entry.
Applications are invited for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships from suitably qualified researchers wishing to base their work in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
One of the main strands of the 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, starting this week at The Greek Film Archive, is inspired by Dimitris Papanikolaou's recent book.